Lian graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. and M.A. in Psychology and earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She received specialized training in behavior change and in the assessment of individual and team functioning. Her post-doctoral fellowship was within the Stanford University School of Medicine, where she worked with couples to optimize relationships. She also worked with Stanford athletes on sports performance enhancement and served as a member of the clinician resource team for the San Francisco 49ers.
She was a professor and core faculty member in the PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology from 2013-2019. During this tenure, she was twice honored by students as Professor of the Year. Her research aimed to understand how emotional intelligence and communication skills impact the effectiveness of relationships. Her work was featured in media outlets ranging from public radio to pop publications. For a decade, she served as an operational advisor to mental health tech start ups (e.g., Two Chairs).
Lian now exclusively practices as an executive coach, reflecting her passion for facilitating the excellence of the extraordinary leaders who shape our technological and sociopolitical landscape. She helps founders and executive teams optimize their leadership to achieve peak performance and outcomes. She works with leaders across industries at all stages in the entrepreneurial lifecycle, from seed stage to public companies. As the social impact arm of her work, she co-founded Coaching Bold to support leaders in the nonprofit space.
Selected RESEARCH:
Invited reviewer: Swiss National Science Foundation; American Psychological Association’s Psychological Science; American Psychological Association’s Emotion; Journal of Social and Personal Relationships; Journal of Marriage and Family
Haase, C.M., Bloch, L., & Levenson, R.W. (2022, March). Emotion regulation and mental health: A longitudinal study of long-term married couples. In E. Necka (Chair), Dyadic affective processes in aging health. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Long Beach, California.
Holley, S.R., Haase, C., Chui, I., & Bloch, L. (2017). Depression, emotion regulation, and the demand-withdraw pattern during intimate relationship conflict. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Haase, C., Holley, S.R., Bloch, L., Verstaen, A., & Levenson, R.W. (2017). Interpersonal emotional behaviors and physical health: A 20-year longitudinal study of long-term married couples. Emotion.
Holley, S.R., Ewing, S.T., Stiver, J.T., & Bloch, L. (2015). The relationship between emotion regulation, executive functioning, and aggressive behaviors. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Bloch, L., Haase, C.M., & Levenson, R.W. (2014). Emotion regulation predicts marital satisfaction: More than a wives’ tale. Emotion, 14(1), 130-144.
Haase, C. M., Saslow, L. R., Bloch, L., Saturn, S. R., Casey, J., Seider, B. H., Lane, J., Coppola, G., & Levenson, R. W. (2013, October). The 5-HTTLPR polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene moderates the effect of stress on declines in marital satisfaction over 13 years. In R. W. Levenson & C. M. Haase (Chairs), New frontiers in research on the neurogenetic sources of emotional and stress reactivity. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Florence, Italy.
Bloch, L., Haase, C., & Levenson, R.W. (2010, July). Let it all out?: Anger behavior during marital conflict and change in cardiovascular symptoms over 20 years. Invited talk given at the annual meeting of the NIMH Training Consortium in Affective Science, Berkeley, California.